• the_doktor@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Oh no, not binary files that are well-documented and you can know exactly what they’re doing!

    Also, the journalctl files are just text with useful markers embedded in them to be easier to filter and search. Run strings on the journal files and see they’re just text with metadata in them.

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      4 months ago

      I didn’t know that the are text files with markers…

      If that’s true, I may hate it less. I’ll have to try that

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      4 months ago

      You must compile every single software package from source, but only after you’ve examined every single line of the code yourself!

      1995 called, they said you’re doing it wrong, and RMS is going to be very mad at you.